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Strengthening Community Ties: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Better Approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Board Effect

Dating back to 2006, the Daring to Lead report showed that 82% of nonprofit executive directors were Caucasian. 2018- The Impact of Diversity: Understanding How Nonprofit Board Diversity Affects Philanthropy, Leadership, and Board Engagement showed that 78.6% of nonprofit boards were white.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies. which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006. We also have a great panel coming up next Thursday night, Jan.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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Foundry Group Next

Feld Thoughts

When we started Foundry in 2006 we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy firm. He has been on our advisory board and for the past eight years has been a key advisor to us. Yet another, and much larger set of companies, come from our investments in other venture funds.

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Introducing Foundry Group Next

VC Adventure

When we started Foundry in 2006 we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy firm. He has been on our advisory board and for the past eight years has been a key advisor to us. Yet another, and much larger set of companies, come from our investments in other venture funds.